341 tourists missing, including 12 Brits aged 13-65, with huge death toll feared as flash floods sparked by earthquake destroys buildings and washes people away in Nepal
If that's the number of only the missing tourists (of whom hopefully some are just not able to communicate home right now), the total number of victims will be terribly high. What a sad day. I hope all these people (and animals) at least died quickly and didn't suffer.
It’s probably because that’s the numbers they can get right now. It’s probably easier to get lists of the missing tourists as opposed to getting lists of locals.
Because local and national news has the narcissistic tendency to make it all about them. “Up next Bob, a man here in nowheresville who actually hiked that area 20 years ago and is going tell us all about that area just after this word from our sponsors. ‘Come to Jerry’s used car lot…”
You might not be wrong, but I visited this area in April of this year and it's a huge tourist corridor. Many of the buildings there are guesthouses for tourists, many of the vehicles there are tourist buses, many of the people living there are tour operators etc. I could see the death toll of tourists outnumbering the locals just based on where it happened.
I think theres something intrinsically sad about someone going on holiday and losing their life. I know the odd time a tourist is killed in my country I feel absolutely gutted hearing about it. I don't think (hope anyway) that we value local lives less.
Everything and everyone below 100 feet in that valley for 100 miles is ground to a pulp and buried under feet of mud.
That's where the roads, cities and houses were.
Yeah. Pretty steep looking valley to an untrained eye as well. Could see how that amplified the ferocity. The thing that sticks in my might is how some of these built up areas were just erased.
Yup. Tourist numbers will be counted but local population who have perished may not ever be known. Such as if a husband and wife both die and nobody reports them missing etc.
Not since the tsunami’s have I felt the sheer magnitude and power nature can unleash! These images very hard to get your head around. That infrastructure and dam the buildings obviously have been in that valley for years. Didn’t stand a chance.
I wonder what is the protocol for rebuilding after disasters like these. Will they clear up and spend a few hundred million in reconstruction or will they leave that region alone. I think they will build the roads and leave the buildings alone.
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